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Lupin and Jigen steal Hades' Tear but are immediately targeted. While Lupin hides in some bushes, a woman finds him and takes him in. But she's working for that same group. They explain that the tear is fake, not a diamond at all. They want Lupin to take the diamond across the boarder of Kingsland for a high reward. Lupin agrees, but he and Maria are quickly captured by a gang that wants Hades' Tear, not realizing it's fake. Once they realize that Lupin and Maria don't have any information, they leave to seek revenge on the leader, Gordon. Left alone, Maria reveals she's actually a spy to uncover what they're really transferring. They want to transport the whole statue, so there must be something to it. Lupin realizes they must be transporting plutonium since Hades is also known as Pluto. Once they escape, they meet up at the port where Gordon plans to ship it out and intervene. In the middle of that, however, the gang shows up to take the statue. Gordon takes out the men, and Lupin takes out Gordon. He wanted to ship it over to be turned into nukes. Now that the case has been solved, Maria can go to France and be with her fiance.

Exposition, oh lord, the exposition. The first line in this episode is exposition about the diamond, the next scene is exposition about why they want to transport the Hades statue, the next scene is Lupin explaining that plan to Jigen and Goemon, and when Lupin and Maria escape, they just explain. This episode is really boring. It's mainly just talking about conflict in countries we never see. There are supposedly two warring countries, but we never see that, so the mystery of the plutonium being used as weaponry serves literally no point or has a proper build-up. I know this isn't necessarily a mystery to be solved, but the mysteries only ever feel satisfying if you could have reasonably concluded that. I was going to say it was hard for this episode to keep my attention, but that's not even it; I paid good attention to this episode; I just literally didn't know what they were talking about. There's so much "this is happening somewhere else, so do this" kind of dialogue, so when a lot of names and terms are being thrown around without context, it left me so confused. This episode is just a lot of nothing to me.